Florida is 'a museum of the weird that just happens to have a lot of electoral votes'

Host Brooke Gladstone says this as if these two things are unrelated when of course they are not. What Will Greenlee says about open records is irrefutable but also sort of an unsexy nonstarter in this ongoing conversation about the "weirdness" of the Sunshine State. What author and McArthur genius Karen Russell, meanwhile, says about the seasons, the way they don't change here, or at least the way they don't change here in the same way they do elsewhere, is worth some consideration.

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For the past year, readers have come to the State You're In pages in our monthly Floridian magazine to feast on our facts, to lap up our lyrics, to tarry with our Time Capsule. And then they were done, and there was nothing to do but wait for the next month. Didn't seem right that we were apart for so long. So we on the SYI desk have decided to go digital. Written by Michael Kruse, it will provide you a constant supply of signature State You're In news and commentary. Because we were meant to be together. Every day.